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New comment by newsbinator in "'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman"

newsbinator — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:09:29 +0000

A native English-speaking HNer doesn't know their MBTI letters?

Well if that's not a typical young Korean, then who is?

New comment by newsbinator in "'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman"

newsbinator — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:21:03 +0000

Younger generations are now heavily into MBTI. And I mean heavily: you won't find a person under 35 or so who doesn't know their MBTI letters.

New comment by newsbinator in "X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content"

newsbinator — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:59:01 +0000

> Elon is not a generous guy

Why would he be?

New comment by newsbinator in "The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing"

newsbinator — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 21:14:33 +0000

I wouldn't dare say that to a colleague or friend, because although they might appear to take it well, I don't think I'd be doing our relationship any favors. I'd step out with an excuse instead.

But given my lifestyle, I almost never have to be around anybody who's eating, except in contexts in which I can't hear them eating (busy brunch, say).

New comment by newsbinator in "Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were 'too complex'"

newsbinator — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:45:22 +0000

A lot of them are autistic and they enjoy applying their version of "order" to a chaotic system.

The overlap between subreddit moderators and Dungeons & Dragons moderators is probably quite high.

New comment by newsbinator in "Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were 'too complex'"

newsbinator — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:43:33 +0000

According to this chart, X is the most politically balanced social media platform:

https://x.com/stat_sherpa/status/1867627066826400096

New comment by newsbinator in "Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were 'too complex'"

newsbinator — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:35:52 +0000

Also Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon and Trump are 2 weeks away from running the primary government to which I'm more or less answerable... better batten down the hatches"

New comment by newsbinator in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

newsbinator — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:00:47 +0000

Unfalsifiable does not mean pseudoscientific. Plenty of things might be unfalsifiable for humans (e.g. humans lack the cognitive capacity to conceive of ways to falsify them), but then easily falsifiable for whatever comes after humans.

New comment by newsbinator in "Trust in scientists hasn't recovered from Covid. Some humility could help"

newsbinator — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:34:19 +0000

> Public confidence in scientists fell from 87 percent in April 2000 to a low of 73 percent in October 2023

It's incredible public confidence in scientists is still that high.

When the public turned to scientists with valid questions, they were met with "just trust me bro" and mockery for "doing your own research" in response to being dismissed.

Even worse: the "just trust me bro" people kept being wrong about one thing after another, then pretending a year later the opposite position was their position all along.

The general public isn't smart, but most people can remember life-and-death information they were given a year back.

New comment by newsbinator in "I'm a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me"

newsbinator — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:43:55 +0000

> They just gave patients a seemingly random score that nobody understood, on a scale of one to infinity.

I mean obviously it's broken UX and/or poor architecture overall. That's not an AI-creep problem.

New comment by newsbinator in "I'm a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me"

newsbinator — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:10:57 +0000

Takeaway: Bad AI is bad. Good AI is good.

We're perhaps middling at diagnosing neurology issues and we're terrible at treating them. Absolutely useless. If we haven't moved the needle in the last 50 years, then let's try to use AI to do it.

There'll be casualties along the way, but it's a lot better than being stuck in the dark ages blindly trying to repair neurological problems with stone knives and bearskins for another 3 generations.

New comment by newsbinator in "Boycott men? South Korea's 4B movement gains traction in the U.S."

newsbinator — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:11:34 +0000

No, not at all like incels or MGTOW. When women do it it's stunning and brave. It's a protest for what's right.

When men do it it's cowardly and needy, a result of being so unworthy that no reasonable person would want to be around them.

New comment by newsbinator in "NotebookLlama: An open source version of NotebookLM"

newsbinator — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:14:39 +0000

And this regularly happens with humans too

New comment by newsbinator in "Mystery of Deep-Ocean 'Biotwang' Sound Has Been Solved"

newsbinator — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:45:43 +0000

> On nine of the occasions that Bryde’s whales turned up, the researchers also heard the biotwang. “Once, it’s a coincidence,” Allen says. “Twice is happenstance. Nine times, it’s definitely a Bryde’s whale.”

New comment by newsbinator in "One-time purchase alternatives to popular subscription tools"

newsbinator — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:41:51 +0000

I'm not even a graphic designer and Pixelmator Pro has paid for itself many times over. I can't believe Mac users (outside professional graphic-design) would willingly pay Adobe.

New comment by newsbinator in "Unitree Launches G1 Humanoid Robot with 3D Lidar and Dexterous Hands for USD 16k"

newsbinator — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:20:54 +0000

2 hours of battery power

New comment by newsbinator in "Show HN: One Dollar Feedback"

newsbinator — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:47:13 +0000

> AI doesn’t buy your service, but humans do.

Only specific humans do, not typically fellow SaaS makers.

It would be better if the reviewers were also the target audience.

New comment by newsbinator in "Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains"

newsbinator — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:43:22 +0000

But you don't understand: what "your government" is doing is really bad. And a big part of Namecheap's team is the recipient of what "your government" is doing. And you paying taxes to "your government", or even at the grocery store as you live your nondescript life, is you implicitly supporting "your government" in doing those bad things.

Therefore dropping you as a customer with almost zero notice is warranted (you monster).

If you don't like it, then email our team and plead with us and justify yourself. Tell us you're one of the good ones. We might deign to give you a bit more time to pack your bags.

(To sarcastically paraphrase the Namecheap CEO's statements here on HN.)

New comment by newsbinator in "Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains"

newsbinator — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:35:17 +0000

Same here- I used to have all my domains on Namecheap until their CEO came on HN to announce that anybody who forced their parents to give birth to them in Russia has exactly 1 week to transfer all their domains away somewhere else.

I don't fall into that category, but this was so ignorant and insulting that I transferred away all my domains to Cloudflare and never looked back.

New comment by newsbinator in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

newsbinator — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:50:35 +0000

Seconding the keyboard mapping. Up/Down or Left/Right would be helpful.

I love this OP. Well done!